How-to topics are popular infographic designs, and How To Properly Use Sunscreen is a great topic to cover. From STACK.com. It’s over 100°F (over 37°C) here in Texas this week, so this is a very appropriate topic to share.

Most people know they should use sunscreen to protect themselves from the sun’s harmful rays. Unfortunately, few are fully aware of how to properly use sunscreen. This is particularly true of athletes who train and compete in the sun throughout the summer.

If you’re spending long hours in the heat this summer, sunscreen could become your most important piece of training equipment. Check out the graphic below to learn how to select the right SPF, understand application and find out how different conditions impact the need to use and reapply sunscreen. Don’t find yourself sunburned on the sideline this summer because you failed to educate yourself on how to properly use sunscreen.

As strong as the topic is, I see a number of design improvements that could be made:

The stats need to be visualized! The definition of SPF would have been a great data visualization comparing one hour in the sun without sunscreen to 15 hours in the sun with SPF 15.

I love the varying degrees of transparency in the shadows behind the shield illustrations for the different levels of SPF

Overall, there’s too much text. More than a normal reader will take the time to read.

Article originally appeared on Cool Infographics (http://coolinfographics.com/).